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Nature Medicine 14, 120 - 121 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0208-120

A deader vaccine?

Philip Minor1

  1. Philip Minor is in the UK National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, South Mimms, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 3QG, UK. e-mail: pminor@nibsc.ac.uk


Generating live attenuated vaccines through repeated passages in cells and animals has been standard procedure for more than a century. A more targeted approach may lie on the horizon (pages 154–161).

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